2011 Photo Contest Winners

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First Place - "Flying the Colors One Last Time"by 1LT Matthew L. Miller

CW2 George Protzman and CW2 Deborah Glenn from Company A, 1st Battalion (Attack/Recon), 151st Aviation Regiment fly the American flag one final time as the unit departs Camp Warrior, completing their withdrawal from Northern Iraq.

Second Place – "Chinooks – This is What They Do"by CW2 George P. Chino

Sugar Bear 76, a CH-47 assigned to Company B, 1st Battalion, 52nd Aviation Regiment flying back to Kandahar from the Uruzgan province after dropping off passengers on smaller contingency operating bases and picking up space-available soldiers on their way to rest and relaxation (RNR).

SPC Dennis Cater, crew chief, consoles a young Afghani girl who had suffered burns from an unknown source with a small stuffed toy elephant; all of the aircraft in Company C (DUSTOFF), 1st Battalion, 214th Aviation Regiment carry several stuffed toys for the children that these Warriors of Compassion may treat. In the background, medic SGT Lange, watches over his patient.

AH-64D Apaches of the 3rd Battalion (Attack/Recon), 159th Aviation Regiment stand waiting for their pilots and crew chiefs on a cold October morning during a mission rehearsal exercise at the Joint Multi-national Training Center-Grafenwöhr, Germany.

SSG Mark Rickel uses the rescue hoist on a Florida ARNG UH-72A Lakota helicopter to retrieve Texas medic, SPC DeLeon near Port-au-Prince, Haiti during Operation New Horizons. Both Soldiers were part of TF Bon Voizen in Haiti.

Paratrooper exiting a U.S. Army Special Operations Command Flight Detachment CASA 212 over Luzon DZ in support of Operation Toy Drop, a week-long, philanthropic project where Fort Bragg's paratroopers, and paratroopers from across the Nation, contribute new, unwrapped toys to be distributed to local children's homes and social service agencies.